On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:20:23 -0700, Gas Bag wrote:

sci.agriculture.poultry, alt.cooking-chat, alt.permaculture,
rec.gardens, aus.gardens

Chickens supplementing their grain diet?

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I think it was Earth Garden that had a chook pen design that consisted of
central hen house with two attached pens. Basically you dumped all the
vegetable matter that you could (AMY vege matter in small pieces) into one
pen whilst they had the run of the other pen. Then you swapped. it might
have been a week about, it might have been longer (probably).

The idea ws that the worms built up in the pen and created compost safe
from the hens, then you'd allow the chooks into tractor it and eat the
worms, whilst boosting the worm population inthe other.

Personally, I'd also throw out all meat scraps as well as that brings
maggots,which the chooks will eat.